>>I have seen dates stored as seconds since a predetermined date. Does that help?
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>Well, getting its numeric value is not difficult. Date.Now.Ticks would do it. But, how to get it back? That's what I am trying to figure out.
I don't know if it has been answered yet, but the DateTime structure has a constructor where you can pass the number of ticks.
long ticks = DateTime.Now.Ticks;
DateTime aLittleWhileAgo = new DateTime(ticks);
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